Most people don't know that the famous Pierce Arrow cars were built in Buffalo and the original building still stands on Elmwood Avenue and Great Arrow. The museum is located in downtown Buffalo, and it features not only the classic Pierce-Arrows, but many other classic cars of
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Potash Road (Utah Highway-279) starts near the entrance to Arches National Park and follows the Colorado River for about 17 miles. Along the road are several trails to arches, ancient petroglyphs and
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Interstate Highway 70 passes through the northern edge of the Kansas Flint Hills, which are formations of limestone bedrock covered by vast grass prairies. This particular limestone has been used for everything from fences to buildings, and this route has many examples of this rock usage. Depending on your direction of travel,
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The small ornate bridge that spans the Augusta Canal on 15th Street was built in 1914 to immortalize Major Archibald Butt (1865-1912) an Augusta native who was military aide to Presidents Theodore Roosevelt and Howard Taft, but is remembered as a hero of the Titanic who died saving
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Harlem is the birthplace and hometown of Oliver Hardy, one-half (the portly one, so maybe two-thirds) of the early movie team that made people laugh through the
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This museum has a collection of about 3 million specimens taken from the worlds of paleontology, paleobotany, geology, botany, entomology, ichthyology, herpetology, ornithology, and mammalogy. Fossils in the collection represent more than 100,000 vertebrates and more
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Sacajawea, the Native American woman who acted as guide and interpreter for the Lewis & Clark Expedition, is buried near Fort Washakie, Wyoming. There is much controversy over her life and death with some accounts saying she only lived to age 24 and is buried in South Dakota, but at this
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A short drive from the town of Ulm is a state park without a tree in it. It is pure prairie, except for a bluff that gives the park its name. It is also known as the Ulm Pishkun State Park. A buffalo jump was a Native American hunting technique where bison were driven over a cliff and
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This is probably a good replica of the Little House on the Prairie. If you've never seen a sod house, you're in for a shock. One room serves as living room, kitchen and bedroom. It is a perfect illustration of Laura Wilder's harsh prairie life, though there is no direct connection to her. There is a nice little gift shop and a hunter and bison made of wire out front for realism.
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